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Ten Percenter
- FB Enquirer -
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 09/14/2004 : 01:29:24
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I've not heard it yet, but it was reviewed (briefly) in Sunday's Observer:
Giant Sand
It's All Over the Map
(Thrill Jockey)
Howe Gelb, the doyen of alt.country, continues his ridiculously prolific career (Giant Sand releases are into the dozens these days) with this pleasant selection of skewed ditties. At times, the songwriting falls down - there's something glib, for instance, about the lyrics to 'NYC of Time' - but there's a great range of textures crammed into the ramshackle country framework. The above track features a piercing solo which sounds like a guitar but is, in fact, a scream. There is some fine slide work and on several tracks the strings of Gelb's piano are struck or plucked while he plays to provide strange, hammer dulcimer-like accompaniment.
"Fried food, cigarettes, no exercise, chest pain..." (Excerpt from the Angina Monologues) |
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Johnny Yen
= Cult of Ray =
USA
408 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2004 : 16:08:44
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Do you like amp destroying feedback, cocktail lounge piano, desert fried Leonard Cohen vocals, shimmering acoustic guitar, jazzy brushed drums that get the hell beat outta them, and songs that can completly shift midway? Does the idea of a Sex Pistols/Waylon Jennings medly sound like fun? What if it's sung by the lead singer's 16 year old daughter?
I'm big into it myself. It sums up what Howe Gelb has been doing for the past 3 years quite nicely. 4 outta 5.
GO here to see what giant sand fans have been saying about it:
http://www.giantsand.com/comments/index.shtml |
Edited by - Johnny Yen on 09/14/2004 16:10:22 |
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new GIANT SAND album
I joined the cult of this mouse / and now I occidentally tic-tac